CVE-2025-12480 — Triofox
CRITICALCVE-2025-12480 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.1) CWE-284 vulnerability in gladinet triofox. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-11-12) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Triofox versions prior to 16.7.10368.56560, are vulnerable to an Improper Access Control flaw that allows access to initial setup pages even after setup is complete.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-11-12. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2025-12-03.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2025-12480.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2025-12480 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 394,803 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Triofox versions prior to 16.7.10368.56560, are vulnerable to an Improper Access Control flaw that allows access to initial setup pages even after setup is complete.
Affected Products
triofoxgladinetDetection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every gladinet triofox deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Fix
Apply the gladinet triofox security patch or hotfix for CVE-2025-12480 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.
Workarounds
Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2025-12480
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2025-12480 -u https://target- Template
- Triofox - Improper Access Control
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Attackers may gain access to sensitive administrative functions of the Triofox database, resulting in unauthorized data access, modification, or potential system compromise.
- Remediation
- Upgrade to Triofox 12.91.1126.65588 or CentreStack 12.10.595.65696 and later to resolve this vulnerability and restrict unauthenticated access to the administrative database panel.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (johnk3r, gti), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2025-12480 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.